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ventricular flutter

Medical Definition

A potentially lethal cardiac arrhythmia characterized by an extremely rapid, hemodynamically unstable ventricular tachycardia (150-300 beats/min) with a large oscillating sine-wave appearance. [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0736-9199]

Wikipedia Summary

Ventricular flutter is an arrhythmia, more specifically a tachycardia affecting the ventricles with a rate over 250-350 beats/min, and one of the most indiscernible. It is characterized on the ECG by a sinusoidal waveform without clear definition of the QRS and T waves...
Related Codes (2)
Code
Description
Billable
Details
I49.0Ventricular fibrillation and flutter
I49.02Ventricular flutter

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